Federal · federal court of appeals · 2025

United States v. Steven Anderegg

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 14 May 2025. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.

Case record · 7th Cir.

  1. Court. Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitCOURT
  2. Level. federal court of appealsLEVEL
  3. Date. 14 May 2025DATED
  4. Docket. No. 25-1354DOCKET
  5. Documents. one document, 1 passage quoted belowON FILE
  6. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Docket entry 8, 14 May 2025 · source · PDF · 73 pages

Docket text. Appellant's brief filed by Appellant USA. Paper copies due on 05/21/2025. REMINDER: If a case is designated to proceed to oral argument, hearing notices will be mailed shortly before the date of oral argument. Please note that counsel's unavailability for oral argument must be submitted by letter, filed electronically with the Clerk's Office, and should be made by no later than seven days after the filing of the appellee's brief. See Cir. R. 34(b)(3), (4). The court's calendar is located at https://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/cal/argcalendar.pdf. Once scheduled, oral argument is rescheduled only in extraordinary circumstances. See Cir. R. 34(b)(4), (e). [8] [7452294] [25-1354] (EHF) [Entered: 05/14/2025 01:15 PM]

But given advances in AI technology, there is a real concern that law enforcement will spend its Case: 25-1354 Document: 8 Filed: 05/14/2025 Pages: 73 19 limited time and resources searching for children who do not exist— which is obviously to the detriment of real children who do exist and who do need rescue.10 This case again illustrates the risks: many of Anderegg’s images are photorealistic, and it was only other facts (e.g., his Instagram chats and the forensic search of his computer) that made clear that the children were virtual and not in need of rescue or the victim of a sexually explicit deepfake.

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